The pi has had OpenGL ES, dispmanx, opengv and openmax from lauch. The ability to accelerate graphics using the GPU was never the issue. Simon's driver differs in that it's 100% open, not that it adds any new functionality.

But the long-term plan is to switch to Maynard , it seems.
I'm pretty sure the people at Collabora are still working on
those projects even when they don't update the github repo.

And the foundation is known not to announce continuous
progress reports , but only finished projects or milestones.

ghans

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But the long-term plan is to switch to Maynard , it seems.
I'm pretty sure the people at Collabora are still working on
those projects even when they don't update the github repo.

And the foundation is known not to announce continuous
progress reports , but only finished projects or milestones.

ghans

Maynard won't be all things to all men. There will be a limit to the number of windows you can open at any one time for example to fit in with dismpanx's max of, IIRC, 256. So there will still be a place for X, so its worthwhile getting as much performance out of it as possible. The whole X stack, esp. when combined with QT or GTK is very inefficient even before you get to the parts that you can accelerate. It would be worth people investigating that further (The Bitscope people did some good work here, not sure its published yet)

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But the long-term plan is to switch to Maynard , it seems.
I'm pretty sure the people at Collabora are still working on
those projects even when they don't update the github repo.

And the foundation is known not to announce continuous
progress reports , but only finished projects or milestones.

ghans

Maynard won't be all things to all men. There will be a limit to the number of windows you can open at any one time for example to fit in with dismpanx's max of, IIRC, 256. So there will still be a place for X, so its worthwhile getting as much performance out of it as possible. The whole X stack, esp. when combined with QT or GTK is very inefficient even before you get to the parts that you can accelerate. It would be worth people investigating that further (The Bitscope people did some good work here, not sure its published yet)

What about XWayland?
Raspbian comes with weston pre-installed but doesnt support xwayland and niether does maynard !!! There are build guids for xwayland but they never seem to work !!!

But the long-term plan is to switch to Maynard , it seems.
I'm pretty sure the people at Collabora are still working on
those projects even when they don't update the github repo.

And the foundation is known not to announce continuous
progress reports , but only finished projects or milestones.

ghans

Maynard won't be all things to all men. There will be a limit to the number of windows you can open at any one time for example to fit in with dismpanx's max of, IIRC, 256. So there will still be a place for X, so its worthwhile getting as much performance out of it as possible. The whole X stack, esp. when combined with QT or GTK is very inefficient even before you get to the parts that you can accelerate. It would be worth people investigating that further (The Bitscope people did some good work here, not sure its published yet)

What about XWayland?
Raspbian comes with weston pre-installed but doesnt support xwayland and niether does maynard !!! There are build guids for xwayland but they never seem to work !!!

No idea.

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portets wrote:^ why does it seem nobody knows about broadcom's new official open driver they hired a dev for?

What do you want to know about it?

Note this is work being done by Broadcom, not the Foundation (although I detect Eben's hand in there), so there is presumably a cross Broadcom plan for it, not specifically Raspberry Pi. Even here at Broadcom, I'm not sure what the plan is.

But I do want to find out more about it myself, so next time I spot Eben around the place will have a chat.

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